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Sr. Materials Engineering Manager - Mounds View, MN (Onsite)

Medtronic

Mounds, MN | Full Time

$133k-164k (estimate)

6 Months Ago

Sr. Materials Engineering Manager - Mounds View, MN (Onsite)

Medtronic Mounds, MN

$133k-164k (estimate)

Full Time | Medical Technology 6 Months Ago

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Medtronic is Hiring a Sr. Materials Engineering Manager - Mounds View, MN (Onsite) Near Mounds, MN

Careers That Change Lives

Engineers and Scientists create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Join us to make a lasting impact. Help bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide.

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

Join us to make a lasting impact. Help bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide.

The Senior Materials Engineering Manager is responsible for leading the CRDM Materials Technology and Development teams (supporting TDS, Devices, Research) and providing inter-organizational leadership, technical work direction, and coaching. The Sr. Materials Manager will drive functional excellence, instill a foundational, 1st principles mindset within the team, and work with internal customers and suppliers to ensure that materials or solutions are capable of meeting performance requirements.

A Day in the Life:

• Provide strategic leadership and direction to the CRDM Materials teams (supporting TDS, Devices, Research) including management of objectives in line with Medtronic and CRDM goals.

• Manage materials organization and execution for results in support of Development, Technology, and Product support.

• Ensure the materials strategy is applied across projects and functions, meeting the needs of customers and CRDM business strategies by developing, communicating and implementing business plans to achieve business results.

• Collaborate with internal and external partners (BU Leaders, Project Leaders, and Cross-Functional constituents) to ensure the materials strategy is executed to achieve significant and measurable improvements in materials.

• Develop the technical talent in the materials organization with a goal of continuous improvement. Recognize trends and ensure proper skill sets and capacity to support execution of plans. Build a team of materials experts to define, lead, and drive new and innovative processes for dramatically improving materials science capabilities within the organization.

• Provides functional leadership to organization, overseeing team plans, performance management, talent management/development, salary administration, and employee relations issues. Actively work to promote employee engagement through organizational diversity and team building, including efforts in meeting GIDE (Global Inclusion, Diversity & Engagement) goals.

• Lead, organize and control planning for Annual Operating Plan (and longer term) expense budgets, capital expenditures and external partnership activities to ensure approved annual operating plans, programs, capital and expense budgets are achieved.

• Maintain appropriate communications within and between CRDM and other businesses to deliver on Medtronic’s overall business and materials strategies worldwide, collaborating as appropriate to ensure synergies with and between organizations.

• Support the evaluation of the external technology landscape and global external scouting efforts to ensure a complete pipeline of materials and technologies will be available.

• Drive continuous improvement in materials screening techniques to allow earlier decisions to eliminate candidate materials. Material technology and development evaluation to happen earlier and off of the critical path.

• Support the expansion of both internal and external collaboration efforts, working seamlessly across boundaries and divisions, including upstream with academia and corporate resources, cross-divisionally, and downstream with manufacturing.

• Drive positive change in developing predictive reliability efforts with current and new materials.

• Support current and next generation product development.

Required Qualifications

Bachelors degree required
Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience with 5 years of managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with 5 years of managerial experience

Preferred Qualifications

Strong Materials Science knowledge as well as material processing techniques
Demonstrated people leadership skills, including performance management, talent development, retention, and motivational skills.
Six Sigma, Lean and Design-of-Experiments methodologies.
Medical device industry experience or experience working in regulated industries
Experience in leading in technology driven industries
Master of Science in Materials Science or related discipline
Materials experience with ceramic and composites

About MedtronicTogether, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.Physical Job RequirementsThe physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)